Efficient Courier Tracking System Project

Courier service providers usually have a very large network across countries. A
courier goes through several places including distribution center and delivered
using transportation services like, aero plane, ship, road transport etc. All
customers would like to track their consignment through online or via email or
SMS, whatever options that might be convenient to them. Customer can track
his/her order, till where the courier has been reached just by logging in and
entering courier number to track the location of the package. Here we propose a
dedicated courier tracking system where customer may check the status and
location of his/her courier. Here every distribution channel terminal has a system
operated by authorized people at that particular point of distribution. Each
distribution has login access. On logging, the person needs to make an entry of a
package number that should be reaching to him/her. This data is directly
uploaded to the main system that now keeps track of latest location and status of
the package through an active internet connection. The data stored on server can
now be used for live package status tracking by customers. Customers may login
in to the server in order to enter their unique courier tracking number. On
entering the number system, they get the last recorded status of that particular
package and shows this data to the user. The user may now track his package as
and when needed. The courier tracking system can be further improved by adding
a barcode to every package so that every point just needs to scan the barcode
instead of doing a manual entry of package number.
 Modules:

The system comprises of 3 major modules with their sub-modules as follows:

1. Admin:

 View User: Admin can view all information about the user.
 View package status: Admin can view the package status.

2. User:

 Login: User can login his account using id and password.

 View package status: User can view the package status.
Project Lifecycle:

Description
The waterfall Model is a linear sequential flow. In which progress is seen as
flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of software
implementation. This means that any phase in the development process begins
only if the previous phase is complete. The waterfall approach does not define the
process to go back to the previous phase to handle changes in requirement. The
waterfall approach is the earliest approach that was used for software
development.
 Hardware Requirement:

 Processor – Dual Core

 Hard Disk – 50 GB
 Memory – 1GB RAM

 Software Requirement:

 Windows 7
 Python
 Django framework
 MySQL database
 Advantages

 Receiver can track his courier or ordered goods.

 This system can be used in several different domains for tracking
goods sent by someone.
 It even helps the authority to keep an eye on sent goods.

 Limitation
 Authority at every point has to manually enter the location of the
goods.
 User does not get the exact location of its order.

 Application
 This can be used by Online Shopping companies to provide online
tracking of order to their customers.
 This System can also be used by Courier companies to let the receiver
track his courier.

 Reference
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=15933
&queryText%3DCourier+Tracking
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=65834
84&queryText%3DTracking+system